Implicit Imaginative Resistance

Imaginative resistance is roughly a kind of imaginative failure. It happens when one is either unwilling or unable to comply with an author’s request to imagine some content. Most of the current literature focuses on explicit propositions and scenarios that are purported to trigger imaginative resistance. In this paper, I argue that there is an implicit dimension to imaginative resistance. This reveals that the original phenomenon is more elusive than originally thought and this has implications for the general debate concerning the phenomenon of imaginative resistance.